Bracelet.



No. 810,183. PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906. A. H. BLISS. BRACELET.

APPLICATION FILED SBPT.13, 1905.

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BRACELET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed September 13, 1905. Serial No. 278,226.

T0 at whom it may concern; Be it known that I, ANTHONY HORTO BLrss, acitizen of the United States, residing at North Attleboro, in the countyof Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bracelets, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to bracelets, and has for its object certainimprovements in the joining of the parts of such an article.

The couplings of this bracelet are devised so as to allow it to openwith the ordinary swinging motion of the hinge-bracelet and also topermit it to expand to increase its circumference independently of itshinge action, as will be more fully described in the specification whichfollows.

In the drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicatecorresponding parts throughout, Figure 1 is a section of the braceletclosed; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the end, showing the catch; Fig. 3,a view of a section of the hinge end expanded, and Fig. 4

a section of the last-named end swung open.-

1 and 2 are sections of a tubular bracelet, each section having at itsends disks 3, 4, 5, and 6, which are perforated at 3, 4, 5, and 6 andsoldered within the said tubular sections. The slot 4 is extendedlaterally from near the center of the disk 4, and adjacent to its innerend is a hole 4 into which is soldered the stem 7 of the fastening 7.This stem 7 is returned at 7 to form ayielding arm for the catch, andthis arm 7 is notched at 3 to engage with the edge of the perforation 3of the disk 3. 7 is a lateral extension of the arm 7 which lies in theslot 4 and acts as a release for the arm 7 The end of this extension 7appears at the surface of the bracelet, so that it can be pushed torelease the catch. 8 is a wire connecting the hook 8, formed on theother end of the stem 7 with the coiled spring 9, which is connected bya similar wire 10 to one end of the link 11. This link 11 is a flattenedbar having a perforation 12 at one end to receive the end of the wire 10and a head 13 at the other end to presufficiently long to allow the saidmembers 1 and 2 to separate to increase the circumference of thebracelet.

The spring 9 tends to keep the bracelet closed both in its hinge motionand in its circumferential enlargement.

The operation of the parts is as follows, the bracelet being in theclosed position indicated in Fig. 1. If pressure is applied to theexposed end of the bar v7 the arm 7 is pushed back toward the stem 7, bywhich movement the notch 3 is released from the edge of the disk 3. Thebracelet may now be swung open on 11 as a hinge, the disks 5 and 6sliding out on the curve of the link, as shown in Fig. 4. This movementis, however, against the tension of the spring 9, which tends to throwthe parts back into the closed posltion. In case only a very slightenlargement of the bracelet is needed, as is the case where the wearerhas a small or flexible hand, the catch need not be released, but themembers merely spread, as indicated in Fig. 3.

What I therefore claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofcurved members and a link slidably connecting adjacent ends thereof,said link being curved in an opposite direction to said members.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofcurved members and an oppositely-curved link located in and slidablyconnecting adjacent ends thereof, and yielding means for holding one endof said link in one of said ends.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofcurved tubular members, disks located in adjacent ends of said members,a slot in each of said disks, a link passing through the slot in eachdisk, and yielding means for holding one end of said link in one of saidmembers.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofmembers having perforated end disks, a link passing through saidperforations and terminating at one end Within one member in a head, andyielding means in the other of said members for holding the other end ofsaid link.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofadjacent ends, a disk having a perforation located in each of said ends,a fastening passing through one of said perforations and forming aspring- IIO catch at its outer end, and a hook at its inner end,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. In a device of the class described, the combination of a pair ofmembers, one of said members being tubular, a link located in andslidably connecting one pair of adjacent ends, a fastening for the otherpair of adj acent ends and located in the said tubular member, saidfastening forming a catch on its external end, and a hook on itsinternal end, and aspring fastened at one end to said hook and at theother end to the end of the said link located in said tubular member,

substantially as and for the purpose specified. I 5 In testimony whereofI affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ANTHONY HORTON BLISS.

Witnesses.

FRED. B BYRAM, F. H. BLIss.

